Trump Doesn’t Want Alliances Like NATO, He Wants U.S. Soldiers to Be Guns for Hire
PARIS—Suspicions surrounding Donald Trump’s Russia connections have grown so intense that he’s now being asked directly, even on Fox News, whether he is working for Moscow. And every time he tries to slide by the issue, saying how insulted he is, the suspicions grow worse. At this point it’s a question hard to deny without giving it credence: “When did you stop beating your wife?” has become in effect, “Do you take orders from Russian President Vladimir Putin?”
Trump's insistence on meeting Putin one-on-one at Helsinki and other venues along with Trump's talk about pulling out of NATO all help to poison the atmosphere. A long Twitter thread by former FBI Special Agent Clint Watts is a particularly comprehensive list suggesting why Watts’ former colleagues were so suspicious of Trump in 2017 they opened a counterintelligence investigation of him as a potential Russian agent or source. “Special Counsel investigation must continue, this is a crisis, this is a national emergency,” Watts concludes.
But the situation is worse than that, and the damage much wider. Trump is aiding and abetting the nuclear-armed enemies of America — the same ones named in his administration’s own National Security Strategy — by doing everything he can to tear apart the alliances built to oppose and contain the blatant ambitions of Russia, China and North Korea.